welding

[IDCoconut]

Do you see a big ass scuba tank looking thing in your welding cart? Any ol welder can have an aftermarket spooler. If you don't have gas, then you need to get flux core wire.

Does the welder have an A, B, C, D type setting for heat? Or is it variable?

If you don't have gas, get .030 diameter flux core wire from home depot/lowes. If the welder has the ABCD type knob, put it on A. Set wire feed between 1.5-2. Practice on some pipe that is the same diameter. The tip of the welder should be no more than half an inch from your work piece, or it'll look like you sneezed on it. Don't stay in one spot too long, you'll burn a hole through your work piece.

Do as the guy above said and weld an inch at a time since you're new.



Honestly, if you paid good money for that cat, I would not even try it yourself. You'll probably burn a hole every time you attempt to weld it and just ruin the cat. If you do succeed and connect the cat. I can almost assure you it wouldn't be sealed considering you've never touched a welder before.

There are few people out there that can just pick up a welder and start welding immediately. It isn't rocket science, but experience does help. There's more to it than it looks.

I haven't been to a muffler shop in forever since I weld my own stuff, but I'd guess it'd be no more than 20bucks just to get that thing welded in if you didn't need any piping.